“Pechuck”: Lorne Knight’s Adventures in the Arctic. Montgomery, Richard G. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1948. 1921-23 Canadian Wrangel Island Expedition (Organized by Vilhjalmur Stefansson). Arctic Reading: Canada Preview Knight was born in 1893, son of a Methodist minister from Oregon. He died on Wrangel Island in 1923 of scurvy, in company with Ada Blackjack. Read more